By Aaron Orlowski in The Orange County Register

March 14, 2016

Citing potentially higher costs that would be passed on to customers, Orange County’s largest provider of water to homes and businesses is intensifying its opposition to a key supplier’s plan to buy desalinated water from a proposed $1 billion Huntington Beach plant.

Officials at Irvine Ranch Water District, which serves more than 340,000 customers in Irvine, Tustin, Lake Forest and several other cities, are trying to derail the desalination deal struck between the Orange County Water District and Poseidon Resources, the company proposing the plant on coastal land adjacent to Pacific Coast Highway.

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